The tragic empress.

The angry empress then renewed her attack more fiercely.

' She rose as she said these words, and began to pace the room, with quiet, firm step, erect, stately, beautiful in her advanced years as she had been in her bloom and freshness, only with another kind of beautyan empress among women.

Josephine, now that she was dead, was once more enthroned as empress in the hearts of the French people and thousands poured into Malmaison, to pay their last homage to their deceased empress.

The son of "The Man" moulders in an Austrian tomb, leaving no trace that he has lived; while the lineal descendant of the obscure Creole, of the deposed empress, of the divorced wife, sits on the throne of Clovis and Charlemagne, of Capet and Bonaparte.

I present you with this token in commemoration of the day on which you bring my daughter the ducal crown, in order that it may remind you of mother and daughter alikeof the dethroned empress and of the dethroned queen.

But as soon as he and his fair charge set foot upon deck, the vessel was pushed off, and Rother called out to the distressed empress that he had deceived her in order to carry away her daughter, who was now to become the Langobardian queen.

The daughter of the divorced empress, with the emperor's sisters, had been selected to carry the train of the new empress on the marriage-day.

"This is not," said the experienced and wise empress, "a trivial matter in a princess.

He could present her at the court of St. Petersburg, and with her beauty, her virtue, and his happiness revenge himself on the fickle empress.

" "And the scribbler of the Vossian Gazette, did he not venture even to attack my gracious empress?"

Though he had enjoyed ten years' peace, he knew that peace was only a truce; that the nations were arming in behalf of the injured empress; that so great a crime as the seizure of Silesia must be visited with a penalty; that there was no escape for him except in a tremendous life-and-death struggle, which was to be the trial of his life; that defeat was more than probable, since the forces in preparation against him were overwhelming.

With the air of an insulted empress, Madame ordered its removal.

Nothing now remained to be done but to remove Josephine from the throne, and elevate a new, a legitimate empress, to the vacant place!

She wore no hat and her hands and finger nails were far from clean, but from the folds of her black shawl her neck rose like a column of slightly discolored Carrara marble, upon which her head with its coils of heavy hair was poised with the grace of a sulky empress.

Her dress, of some black clinging stuff, was rather poor, though she wore it with the air of a traditional empress.

"Who has given you the right to insult the Prince Stratimojeff, that you call him the favorite of the adulterous empress?" Bertram looked at her in astonishment.

V O Aphrodite, God-born and deathless, Break not my spirit With bitter anguish: Thou wilful empress, 5 I pray thee, hither!